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William h armstrong7/8/2023 He was the Associate Director of the Peace Corps in Ethiopia from 1966 to 1968. In the 1960s Bill was asked to join the newly formed Peace Corps in an administrative capacity for five years in two countries. In 1964, Bill earned a Masters in Sacred Theology from the Lutheran Theological Seminary. When Bill and Gloria considered opportunities to serve more affluent churches, they felt it was their calling to pastor their beloved friends and parishioners in more troubled neighborhoods. One story stands out: when one of the first African-Americans expressed an interest in joining Calvary Church, some of the white congregants dissented, to which their pastor replied: “Either she stays, or I go.”īill and Gloria served Calvary Church for nine years. He oversaw the integration of a predominantly white church to a fully integrated church. In 1957, he and Gloria moved to the inner city of Philadelphia to serve at Calvary United Church of Christ. He received his Masters of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary in 1957, after which he was ordained as a minister in the United Church of Christ. In 1954, Bill graduated from Swarthmore College with a B.A. Their loving and inspiring marriage lasted for 61 years until Gloria’s death in 2014. He married Gloria (Cassler) Armstrong on June 7, 1953. Armstrong was born on Apin Louisville, Ohio to William and Hazel Armstrong.
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When we were young aa milne7/8/2023 Milne joined the British Army in World War I and served as an officer in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and later, after a debilitating illness, the Royal Corps of Signals. Milne's work came to the attention of the leading British humour magazine Punch, where Milne was to become a contributor and later an assistant editor. He collaborated with his brother Kenneth and their articles appeared over the initials AKM. While there, he edited and wrote for Granta, a student magazine. Milne attended Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied on a mathematics scholarship. Milne was born in Kilburn, London, to parents Vince Milne and Sarah Marie Milne (née Heginbotham) and grew up at Henley House School, 6/7 Mortimer Road (now Crescent), Kilburn, a small public school run by his father. Alan Alexander Milne (pronounced /ˈmɪln/) was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various children's poems.Ī.
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Eileen by ottessa moshfegh7/8/2023 This is a portrait of a person losing her mind, from inside her mind, while she tries to keep it, using a pretend murder mystery. This is not a murder mystery, conventional or otherwise. It's neither as energetic as the horror story of Eileen, nor as thought-provoking and relevant as Rest and Relaxation. The author has said that she wrote the manuscript between those other two novels and put it away for a while. Readers who have read and loved Moshfegh's Eileen and My Year of Rest and Relaxation may find less to love in this strange, affectless protagonist. Still others, like Vesta, become sucked into a rabbit hole of what-ifs and wonderment, looking for questions in a life that has had too many answers already. Some might show it to a spouse or the police. Some might chuckle and attach it to a pinboard. What would you do, if you found a note like that? Some of us might ignore it. Until the day when Vesta finds a note under a rock that reads: "Her name was Magda. There she lives simply with her beloved dog Charlie, taking long rambling walks through the woods and interacting with virtually no one. Vesta Gul, a widow in her seventies, has relocated from the Northern Midwest leaving behind the home she shared with her husband Walter, for a cabin at a decommissioned Girl Scout camp in an unspecified Northeastern state.
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One by one by ruth ware review7/8/2023 Yet, the mystery at the heart of The It Girl is as propulsive as any of her other stories, thanks to Ware’s deft use of two alternating timelines to both push the narrative forward and flesh out the life of the dead girl at its center. After all, the dead woman in this tale died more than a decade prior to the events of the story and life has moved on. It features a less luxurious setting-it takes place in the dorms of Oxford University and the streets of present-day Edinburgh-and though the story is full of real tension, most of it isn’t of the life and death variety. As a result, her latest novel, The It Girl, may feel a bit like a departure from her familiar form. Author Ruth Ware is known for her breathless psychological thrillers that take place in fabulous settings that range from a rustic French ski chalet to a decadent cruise ship.
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The graduate novik7/8/2023 Most people believe that the consciousness of maw-mouth victims never end, and they both are aware of and feel the maw-mouth eating them until the maw-mouth is killed. While no one is entirely sure what happens to maw-mouths, some wizards have been able to contact humans stuck inside with a communication spell and get a response back. While digesting a victim, it stays still before moving onto the next meal. They have tentacles all over which is what they use to pull people in. Their bodies are made up of their victims, mashed up and pulled into the maw-mouth's form. The mouths of recent victims scream and beg, while long-eaten victims still breathe and occasionally mutter syllables. Their surfaces are covered with the eyes and mouths of their victims. Maw-mouths are made up of thick rolling folds of a translucent, glossy mass.
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The wordsmith patricia forde7/7/2023 There’s something to be said for this clarity of moral purpose, especially in the current political climate – sadly, The List ’s central anti-authoritarian, anti-propaganda themes resonate more strongly now that on its initial publication. And of course, through Marlo Letta begins the process of unlearning the truths she’s been taught her whole life.īilled as Fahrenheit 451 meets The Giver, The List (first published as The Wordsmith in 2015) doesn’t quite live up to that pedigree, but it’s an enjoyable read with a strong, simple message: language is vital, art is vital, and their destruction is the destruction of humanity itself. Left alone, Letta takes in an injured boy, Marlo, who she soon realises is one of the Desecrators, a mysterious band of terrorists who seek to take down Ark and List. One day Benjamin sets out into the wilderness on a routine word-finding expedition – and never returns. Care of the List, some five hundred words and falling, is in the hands of the city wordsmith, Benjamin, and his apprentice Letta. The world as we know it has ended, the sea levels have risen, and in the last known bastion of civilisation the people must speak the new language, List, or be expelled into the forest. In the city of Ark, food, water and words are tightly rationed.
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As good as dead holly jackson review7/7/2023 She is also facing a lawsuit from Max as he wants an apology from the recording Pip published with him admitting to what he had done and she refuses telling him she would die before apologising to him as she believes he is truly a monster and wants him behind bars and I agree. Charlie still hasn’t been caught and Pip feels that he holds the answers to what she is feeling right now and she is currently self-medicating on Xanax bought from Luke. The opening to As Good As Dead was interesting as we learn that Pip hasn’t been dealing well with Stanley’s death and is suffered from PTSD over the incident but this only the beginning. I read and adored the first two books in this series but I put off reading the final one since I didn’t want to say goodbye to Pip and Ravi just yet but I am finally cracking it open. Title: As Good As Dead by Holly Jackson (A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder Book 3)
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The discord between General Johnston and President Jefferson Davis (and others), which began early in the conflict and only worsened as the months passed, routinely prevented the cooperation and coordination the South needed on the battlefield if it was going to achieve its independence. McMurry argues persuasively that the Confederacy’s most lethal enemy was the toxic dissension within the top echelons of its high command. Johnston’s contributions to the war effort, however, remain a lightning rod of controversy. During the Civil War he commanded armies in Virginia, Georgia, and the Carolinas and served as commander of the entire Western Theater during a critical period of the war. By 1860 Johnston was widely looked upon as one of America’s finest military officers. Lee and served in the War with Mexico, the Seminole Wars in Florida, and in Texas and Kansas. He graduated West Point in the same 1829 class as Robert E. Joseph Eggleston Johnston was one of the original five full Confederate generals. NOTE: We had such a run on this title that the signed Johnston bookplates will ship from our office separate from the books!Ĭlick HERE to read the full Front Matter and Parts I and II of Chapter 1.
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Half bad series7/6/2023 A cliffhanger indicates that the arc of Nathan’s emotional trajectory will continue. Readers will hope for Nathan’s sake that the fantasy father he’s built from stories he’s heard and his own imagination won’t let him down. Green propels Nathan forward with the help of often underdeveloped secondary characters, who are overshadowed by the imaginary relationship Nathan builds with his father it is this that keeps both Nathan and readers going. After a palpably grueling ordeal in the cage, Nathan finally, too easily, escapes and resolves to find Marcus. Nathan knows that as a Black Witch, he’ll die if not given three gifts on his next birthday by a blood relative Marcus is his only hope. Viewed by the Council as both a threat and a key weapon against Marcus, Nathan is caged by his 16th birthday. By age 11, he’s been designated a Half Code due to his mixed parentage, a status met with fear and disgust by most. Nathan Byrn grew up hearing tales of how his father, the famed Black Witch Marcus, murdered his mother’s husband and caused her to commit suicide. A teenage witch persecuted from birth must find his father, the most notoriously evil witch alive, or die.
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Returning from a Chicago school that’s just closed and whose existence is kept quiet by adult family members, Adam is a 21-year-old man with a child’s mind, having a knack for talking quickly, a savant-like ability for remembering weekdays, and a passion for I Love Lucy. Yet this year, it’s different - Hattie’s uncle Adam is coming home. Hattie Owen enjoys peaceful Millerton summertimes with houses nodding in the heavy air, being in charge of Miss Hagerty’s breakfast tray at her parents’ boardinghouse, and drinking lemonade on the porch after supper. Genre: Fiction, YA, Realistic Fiction, Middle Grade, Historical fiction, Children’s, Family, Contemporary, Coming of age, Juvenile And life is always more interesting that way. Sometimes things work out, sometimes they don’t but at least you’re exploring. It’s all about changing what’s handed to you, about poking around a little, lifting the corners, seeing what’s underneath, poking that. Content warning: suicide, implication of mature content, ableism //Ī Corner of the Universe is a novel that not only explores the innocence of childhood, but also the power of hope, discovery, and curiosity.Īdam told me about lifting the corners the second time I met him, but I had no idea what he meant. All quotes are taken from A Corner of the Universe by Ann M. |